jargon

See also: Jargon

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɑɹ.ɡən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡən

Etymology 1

From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).

Noun

jargon (countable and uncountable, plural jargons)

1. (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
2. (countable) Language characteristic of a particular group.
   • 2014, Ian Hodder, Archaeological Theory Today

     In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.

3. (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
   • Macaulay

     A barbarous jargon.

Synonyms

• (language characteristic of a group): argot, cant, intalk
• vernacular

Derived terms

Terms derived from jargon

• jargonaut
• jargoneer

• jargonist
• jargonistic

• jargonization
• jargonize

Translations

technical terminology unique to a particular subject

• Armenian: ժարգոն (hy) (žargon)
• Belarusian: жарго́н m (žarhón)
• Bulgarian: жарго́н (bg) m (žargón)
• Catalan: argot (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 行話 (zh), 行话 (zh) (hánghuà)

• Czech: žargon m
• Danish: fagsprog n
• Dutch: jargon (nl) n, vaktaal (nl) f, visserslatijn (nl) n
• Esperanto: ĵargono
• Finnish: jargon (fi), ammattikieli (fi)
• Galician: tecnicismo m, xerga f
• Georgian: ჟარგონი (ka) (žargoni)
• German: Fachjargon (de) m, Fachsprache (de) f
• Greek: ιδιογλωσσία f (idioglossía)
• Hungarian: szaknyelv (hu), szakzsargon (hu), szakmai nyelv
• Indonesian: jargon (id)
• Irish: béarlagair m

• Italian: gergo (it) m
• Japanese: 専門用語 (せんもんようご, senmon yōgo), 業界用語 (ぎょうかいようご, gyōkai yōgo), 隠語 (ja) (いんご, ingo)
• Korean: 은어 (ko) (euneo)
• Latvian: žargons m
• Macedonian: жарго́н m (žargón)
• Malay: jargon
• Maori: kupu-ā-kaupapa
• Polish: żargon (pl) m
• Portuguese: jargão (pt) m
• Romanian: jargon (ro) n
• Russian: жарго́н (ru) m (žargón)
• Spanish: tecnicismo (es) m, jerga (es) f
• Swahili: istilahi
• Swedish: jargong (sv) c
• Turkish: jargon (tr), argo (tr)
• Ukrainian: жарго́н m (žarhón)
• Yiddish: זשאַרגאָן‎ m (zhargon)

language characteristic of a particular group

• Armenian: ժարգոն (hy) (žargon)
• Bulgarian: жаргон (bg) m (žargon)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 行語 (zh), 行语 (zh) (hángyǔ)

• Czech: žargon m
• Dutch: jargon (nl) n
• Finnish: slangi (fi), jargon (fi), ammattikieli (fi)
• Georgian: ჟარგონი (ka) (žargoni)
• German: Jargon (de) m, Fachsprache (de) f
• Greek: ιδιογλωσσία f (idioglossía), ιδιόλεκτος (el) f (idiólektos)
• Hungarian: zsargon (hu), tolvajnyelv (hu)

• Irish: béarlagair m
• Macedonian: жарго́н m (žargón)
• Polish: żargon (pl) m
• Portuguese: gíria (pt) f
• Russian: жарго́н (ru) m (žargón)
• Spanish: jerga (es) f
• Swedish: jargong (sv) c
• Turkish: jargon (tr), argo (tr)

incomprehensible speech

• Czech: žargon m
• Dutch: gebrabbel (nl) n, gewauwel (nl) n, wartaal (nl) f
• Finnish: mongerrus (fi), siansaksa (fi)
• Georgian: აბდაუბდა (ka) (abdaubda), უაზრობა (uazroba)
• German: Jargon (de) m, Fachchinesisch (de) n
• Greek: ακαταλαβίστικα (el) pl (akatalavístika)
• Hungarian: halandzsa (hu), blabla (hu)

• Irish: gibiris f, dríodar cainte m
• Japanese: たわごと (tawagoto)
• Portuguese: algaravia (pt) f
• Russian: тараба́рщина (ru) f (tarabárščina)
• Spanish: jerigonza

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} مُصْطَلَح‎ m (muṣṭalaḥ) (1), ^{(please verify)} لُغَة غَيْر مَفْهُومَة‎ f (luḡa ḡayr mafhūma) (2)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ĵargono, ^{(please verify)} jargono
• French: ^{(please verify)} jargon (fr) m
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} לְשׁוֹן מְקוּלְקֶלֶת‎ f (leshon mekulkelet), ^{(please verify)} זַ׳רְגוֹן‎ (he) m (zhargon), ^{(please verify)} נִיב מִקְצוֹעִי‎ m (niv miketso‘i)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} bahasa kacau

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} gergo (it) m
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 行話, ^{(please verify)} 行话 (zh) (háng huà) (1, 2), ^{(please verify)} 隱語, ^{(please verify)} 隐语 (zh) (yǐn huà), ^{(please verify)} 黑話 (hēihuà) (3), ^{(please verify)} 黑话 (zh) (hēihuà) (3)
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} زبان تخصصی‎ (ẕaban-e ṯaḳassosi), ^{(please verify)} زبان مخفی‎ (ẕaban-e maḳfi)
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} jargon (vo)

Verb

jargon (third-person singular simple present jargons, present participle jargoning, simple past and past participle jargoned)

1. To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
   • Longfellow

     The noisy jay, / Jargoning like a foreigner at his food.

Etymology 2

Noun

jargon (plural jargons)

1. Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”)

Further reading

• Jargon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jargon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• "jargon" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 174.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Old French jargon (“chatter, talk, language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɑrˈɣɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: jar‧gon

Noun

jargon n (plural jargons, diminutive jargonnetje n)

1. A jargon, specialised language

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Finnish

(index ja)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑrɡon/, [ˈjɑrɡo̞n]

Noun

jargon

1. jargon

Declension

Inflection of jargon (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		jargon	jargonit
genitive		jargonin	jargonien
partitive		jargonia	jargoneja
illative		jargoniin	jargoneihin
		singular	plural
nominative		jargon	jargonit
accusative	nom.	jargon	jargonit
	gen.	jargonin
genitive		jargonin	jargonien
partitive		jargonia	jargoneja
inessive		jargonissa	jargoneissa
elative		jargonista	jargoneista
illative		jargoniin	jargoneihin
adessive		jargonilla	jargoneilla
ablative		jargonilta	jargoneilta
allative		jargonille	jargoneille
essive		jargonina	jargoneina
translative		jargoniksi	jargoneiksi
instructive		—	jargonein
abessive		jargonitta	jargoneitta
comitative		—	jargoneineen

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒaʁ.ɡɔ̃/

Etymology 1

From Old French jargon, gargun ("cheeping of birds"), from a root *garg expressing the sound of the throat or referring to it. See gargouille, gargariser, gargoter.
The initial /ʒ/ sound comes from a softening of /g/, as in jambe

Noun

jargon m (plural jargons)

2. jargon, specialised or unintelligible language

Derived terms

• jargonner
• jargonnesque

Descendants

• → Czech: žargon
• → Dutch: jargon
• → English: jargon
• → Esperanto: ĵargono
• → German: Jargon
• → Hungarian: zsargon

• → Macedonian: жаргон (žargon)
• → Polish: żargon
• → Portuguese: jargão
• → Russian: жарго́н m (žargón)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жа̀рго̄н

  Latin: žàrgōn

• → Spanish: jerga
• → Swedish: jargong
• → Turkish: jargon

Etymology 2

From Italian giargone

Noun

jargon m (plural jargons)

2. jargon, a zircon type

Descendants

• → Catalan: jargó
• → English: jargoon
• → German: Jargon
• → Greek: γιαρκόν (giarkón)
• → Russian: жарго́н (žargón)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жаргон

  Latin: žargon, jargon

• → Spanish: jergón

References

“jargon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle English

Noun

jargon

1. Alternative form of jargoun.

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Old French

Noun

jargon m (oblique plural jargons, nominative singular jargons, nominative plural jargon)

1. talk; chatter; conversation; talking

Descendants

• French: jargon
  • → Czech: žargon
  • → Dutch: jargon
  • → English: jargon
  • → Esperanto: ĵargono
  • → German: Jargon
  • → Hungarian: zsargon
  • → Macedonian: жаргон (žargon)
  • → Polish: żargon
  • → Portuguese: jargão
  • → Russian: жарго́н m (žargón)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: жа̀рго̄н

    Latin: žàrgōn

  • → Spanish: jerga
  • → Swedish: jargong
  • → Turkish: jargon

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Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French jargon.

Noun

jargon (definite accusative jargonu, plural jargonlar)

1. jargon

Synonyms

• argo

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Volapük

Noun

jargon

1. gibberish
2. A jargon, specialised language